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how fast is pokerboldies?

NM - 35Mil a second.

Anyways I see you are all really smart people (exception Phil). If someone could figure out a way to assign a unique index value between 1 and 133784560 for 7 unordered cards, you could dump everything into a 133 MB lookup table.

I wouldn't mind doing that, since my code isn't really for commercial use, and I think the throughput would go up from my 117 million a second, to maybe a few billion.

But, i haven't figured out a way to assign a unique ID to 7 unordered, (up to 52 - noduplicating) numbers. At least not a method that doesn't require putting them in order first, which might negate the speed advantages.